50 Best Cult Books
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Telegraph, 50 Books
A cult book may be hard to define but one thing is for sure: you know a cult book when you see one. Cult books are somehow, intangibly, different from simple bestsellers - though many of them are that. And people have passionate feelings on both sides: Our critics present a selection of the most notable cult writing from the past two centuries. Some is classic. Some is catastrophic. All of it had the power to inspire
The names/initials of the editors who voted on this are: Christopher Howse, TP, Andrew McKie, Serena Davies, Martin Chilton, Sarah Crompton, Sameer Rahim, Dominic Sandbrook, Tim Martin, Toby Clements, AMcK, Ceri Radford, Mick Brown, Alex Clark, Sam Leith
This list was originally published in 2016 and was added to this site over 2 years ago.
